Judge, 1914-10-24 · page 24 of 24
Judge — October 24, 1914 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising, not political satire**. It features a photograph of Times Square at night dominated by a massive Kelly-Springfield Tires electric sign. The caption compares the sign's dominance of New York's "Great White Way" (Times Square's theater district) to Kelly-Springfield's market dominance in high-grade tires and tubes. The sign is described as 71 feet high, 90 feet long, with the letter "S" measuring 21 feet high and containing 3,000 lamps. This is straightforward product advertising using the spectacle of modern electric signage to promote tire quality—no political cartoon or satire is present on this page.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
wae HOW THE BIG KELLY-SPRINGFIELD ELECTRIC SIGN RULES NEW YORK’S GREAT WHITE WAY, just as Hand-Made Kelly-Springfields dominate the exclusive field in high- mace tires and tubes. The letter °S" in